Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures and seminars

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Criminology. Pieter Spierenburg, Professor at the Department of History, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room A, Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Site) entitled Violence: can historical research contribute to criminological understanding? on 11 November at 5.30 p.m. Please note new venue.

Divinity. The Stanton Lectures 2004-05 will be given by the distinguished American philosopher based at Notre Dame University, Professor Alvin Plantinga, on the subject of Christian belief and science: surface conflict, deep concord; naturalism and science: surface concord, deep conflict. The lectures will all take place at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, on the following dates:

8 November Evolution and design
10 November Evolutionary psychology and Christian belief
12 November Methodological naturalism and games scientists play
15 November Divine action in the world
17 November Evolution vs naturalism: an evolutionary argument against naturalism

History. Hexagonal Forum. Meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

16 November Were the French right? French policy and Islamist terrorism, by Jeevan Deol, of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
23 November Tintin: De Gaulle's 'only international rival'? by Michael Farr.
30 November La patrie du patrimoine? Conceptualizing 'heritage' in ninteenth-century France: a European perspective, by Astrid Swenson, of the Faculty of History.

Law. The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures will be given by Dr Hans Blix, Chairman, International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction; formerly, Executive Chairman, UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission, and will be entitled The United Nations and Iraq - reflections on the use of force, on international inspections, and on UN reform. The lectures will be held on Monday, 22, Tuesday, 23, and Wednesday, 24 November at 6 p.m. in Room LG17, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty, Professor of Law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, member of the College de France and of the French National Ethics Committee, will give a paper on the topic of Towards an Integrated European Criminal Law? at 5 p.m. on 9 November in Seminar Room B16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

McDonald Institute. The Sixteenth McDonald Lecture entitled Modern human origins: abrupt or gradual? will be given by Professor Richard Klein, of Stanford University, at 5 p.m. on 1 December in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. The following seminars will be held at 3 p.m., in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).

24 November Pathways of protein assembly in mitochondria, by Professor Walter Neupert, of the Adolf-Butenandt-Institut Physiologische Chemie, Universität München, Germany. Host: John Walker.
1 December Gene-environmental interaction in the aetiology of diabetes, by Dr Nick Wareham, of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory. Host: Sheila Bingham.

Oriental Studies. Professor Cheng Chung-ying, of the University of Hawaii, will lecture on The metaphysics of the Chinese language, on 18 November at 5 p.m. in Room 8 of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.